American literary critic and scholar, an expert on the life and works of James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, and other modern British and Irish writers.
a series of 34 magnificent rock-cut temples located near the village of Ellora, 19 miles (30 km) northwest of Aurangabad town and 50 miles (80 km) southwest of the Ajanta ...
city, seat (1789) of Hancock county, southern Maine, U.S. It lies at the falls of the Union River just south of Graham Lake, 26 miles (42 km) southeast of Bangor. ...
region in Antarctica at the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, between the Ronne Ice Shelf and the Bellingshausen Sea, east of Marie Byrd Land. It embraces several mountain ranges, including ...
American statesman and jurist, chief author of the 1789 act establishing the U.S. federal court system. He was the third chief justice of the United States.
French political and social scientist, Protestant theologian, and philosopher of technology, best known for his antitechnological views, as expressed in his masterwork La Technique: ou, L'enjeu du siecle (1954; The ...
city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southern Germany, on the Jagst River, north of Aalen. It originated around a Benedictine abbey, founded in 764 and transformed into a college of secular canons ...
(genus Ulmus), any of about 18 species of forest and ornamental shade trees of the family Ulmaceae native primarily to North Temperate areas. Many are cultivated for their height and ...
district and borough, administrative and historic county of Surrey, England. The borough comprises the former urban districts of Esher and of Walton and Weybridge. At the southwestern edge of the ...
American electrical engineer and metallurgist who developed permalloys, metallic alloys with a high magnetic permeability. This property enables the alloy to be easily magnetized and demagnetized, and such alloys are ...
city, DuPage county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It is a suburb of Chicago, lying 16 miles (26 km) west of downtown. Potawatomi Indians were early inhabitants of the area. Settled in ...
city, seat (1836) of Chemung county, southern New York, U.S. It lies on the Chemung River, near the Pennsylvania border, 60 miles (97 km) west of Binghamton. The first European ...
private, coeducational institution of higher learning in Elmira, New York, U.S. It is a liberal arts college dedicated to undergraduate study in the arts and sciences. A master's degree program ...
American penal system named after Elmira Reformatory, in New York. In 1876 Zebulon R. Brockway became an innovator in the reformatory movement by establishing Elmira Reformatory for young felons. Brockway ...
British technologists, joint developers of flotation processes by which valuable ore, such as that of copper, is separated from the worthless material (gangue) with which it is usually extracted from ...
architect whose importance in the Prairie school of U.S. architecture in the first two decades of the 20th century was second only to that of Frank Lloyd Wright.
genus of submerged aquatic plants useful in aquariums and in laboratory demonstrations of cellular activities. Elodea comprises 12 species in the frog's-bit family (Hydrocharitaceae), native to the New World. The ...
(Hebrew: God), the God of Israel in the Old Testament. A plural of majesty, the term Elohim-though sometimes used for other deities, such as the Moabite god Chemosh, the Sidonian ...
biblical source and one of four that, according to the documentary hypothesis, comprise the original literary constituents of the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible. It is so ...
in astronomy, the angular distance in celestial longitude separating the Moon or a planet from the Sun. The greatest elongation possible for the two inferior planets (those closer than the ...
any member of the order Elopiformes, a group of fishes considered to be the most primitive of bony fishes. The order contains about 12 species of marine and brackish water ...
(christened March 18, 1578, Frankfurt am Main [Germany]-d. December 1610, Rome [Italy]), German painter and printmaker, recognized as an important figure in the development of 17th-century landscape painting, noted especially ...
one of the outstanding Belgian Symbolist poets, whose material was the everyday life and folklore of his native city. He was a sincere Roman Catholic, and his poems often reflect ...
Flemish novelist and poet, the author of a small but remarkable oeuvre, whose laconic style and ironic observation of middle-class urban life mark him as one of the outstanding Flemish ...
Austrian ballerina who introduced theatricalized folk dance (character dance) into ballet. She was celebrated for her spirited, spectacular dancing and for her technique, especially her point work.
highly saline lake, Volgograd oblast (province), Russia, near the Russian border with Kazakstan. The lake occupies an area of 59 square miles (152 square km) and is only 1-2 feet ...
town, northeastern Andhra Pradesh state, southern India, at the junction of the Godavari and Krishna canal systems. The name of the town was changed to its present form in 1949. ...
town and concelho (township), Portalegre distrito ("district"), east-central Portugal, on a hill overlooking a plain. The town originated as the Roman Alpesa and during its long history was a border ...
the first known council of the Christian church in Spain, held early in the 4th century at Elvira, near modern Granada. It is the first council of which the canons ...
Danish yachtsman who dominated Olympic Finn class sailing between 1948 and 1960. He won four consecutive gold medals in that event and competed in the Olympics as late as the ...
city, Madison county, east-central Indiana, U.S., 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Indianapolis. Established in 1853 as Quincy, it was renamed for the son of one of its founders in ...
town, East Cambridgeshire district, administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies on an "island" of rock that rises above the alluvial Fens and, prior to their draining (1630-52), ...
city, seat (1886) of White Pine county, east-central Nevada, U.S. It is adjacent to East Ely, near the Utah border. Established in 1868 as a gold-mining camp and probably named ...
city, St. Louis county, northeastern Minnesota, U.S. It lies on Shagawa Lake, at the east end of the Vermilion Iron Range, about 110 miles (175 km) north of Duluth. Ojibwa ...
historic region of England, part of the administrative and historic county of Cambridgeshire. The Isle of Ely consists of a hill about 7 miles (11 km) long and 4 miles ...
ancient Parthian vassal state located east of the lower Tigris River and usually considered part of the larger district of Susiana. It incorporated much of the area of the biblical ...
English author and administrator, memorable for his championship and use of English prose for subjects then customarily treated in Latin. Both as a philosopher and as a lexicographer, he endeavoured ...
city, seat (1823) of Lorain county, northern Ohio, U.S. It lies along the Black River, just west of Cleveland and south of the city of Lorain. The site was settled ...
in Greek mythology, originally the paradise to which heroes on whom the gods conferred immortality were sent. It probably was retained from Minoan religion. In Homer's writings the Elysian Plain ...
a family of Dutch booksellers, publishers, and printers, 15 members of which were in business between 1587 and 1681. They were best known for their books or editions of the ...
Japanese illustrated text, or narrative picture scroll. The makimono, or horizontal hand-scroll, format was used, and most often the text and illustrations appear on the same scroll.
philosophical and theological theory that sees all of creation as an unwilled, necessary, and spontaneous outflow of contingent beings of descending perfection-from an infinite, undiminished, unchanged primary substance. Typically, light ...
(March 3 [Feb. 19, Old Style], 1861), manifesto issued by the Russian emperor Alexander II that accompanied 17 legislative acts that freed the serfs of the Russian Empire. (The acts ...
any of the former convicts (and their supporters) in Australia in the late 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries who were struggling for full civil rights. Technically, ...
the treatment of a dead body so as to sterilize it or to protect it from decay. For practical as well as theological reasons a well-preserved body has long been ...
legal prohibition by a government or group of governments restricting the departure of vessels or movement of goods from some or all locations to one or more countries.
(1807), Pres. Thomas Jefferson's nonviolent resistance to British and French molestation of U.S. merchant ships carrying, or suspected of carrying, war materials and other cargoes to the European belligerents. At ...
German physiological chemist who conducted studies on the chemistry of carbohydrate metabolism and muscle contraction and was the first to discover and link together all the steps involved in the ...
in the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, four "times" set apart for special prayer and fasting and for the ordination of the clergy. The Ember Weeks are the complete weeks ...
songbird family in the classification preferred by some authorities, absorbing some groups otherwise placed in the Fringillidae (q.v.), order Passeriformes. The family Emberizidae includes some species of buntings, finches, grosbeaks, ...
crime generally defined as the fraudulent misappropriation of goods of another by a servant, an agent, or another person to whom possession of the goods has been entrusted. The offense ...
collection of symbolic pictures, usually accompanied by mottoes and expositions in verse and often also by a prose commentary. Derived from the medieval allegory and bestiary, the emblem book developed ...
central panel with figure representations-people, animals, and other objects-or occasionally another featured design motif in a Hellenistic or Roman mosaic. Emblemata were usually executed in opus vermiculatum, very fine work ...
(1708-09), conflict in the Captaincy of Minas Gerais, Brazil, between the original settlers from Sao Paulo (Paulistas) and new settlers called emboabas, who were mostly European immigrants. In the late ...
obstruction of the flow of blood by an embolus, a particle or aggregate of substance that is abnormally present in the bloodstream. The substance may be a blood clot that ...
art of producing raised patterns on the surface of metal, leather, textiles, paper, and other similar substances. Strictly speaking, the term is applicable only to raised impressions produced by means ...
a powerful Genoese family, whose members played notable roles in the Crusades in the Holy Land in the 11th and 12th centuries. Guglielmo Embriaco and his brother Primo di Castello ...
art of decorating material, primarily textile fabric, by means of a needle and thread (and sometimes fine wire). The basic techniques include crewel work, needlepoint, cross-stitch embroidery, and quilting, as ...
the early developmental stage of an animal while it is in the egg or within the uterus of the mother. In humans the term is applied to the unborn child ...
the study of the formation and development of an embryo and fetus. Before widespread use of the microscope and the advent of cellular biology in the 19th century, embryology was ...
town, central Kenya, eastern Africa, located at an elevation of about 4,400 feet (1,350 m), about 24 miles (40 km) south of Mount Kenya National Park. Embu was founded by ...
